Spatial Cultures is an anthology of 20 texts edited by Sam Griffiths and Alexander von Lünen, with roots in a one-day workshop at UCL in 2013.1 They cover a diverse range of questions woven together by how urban history, social theory, and built environmental research are brought into dialogue with one another both theoretically and methodologically, where one aim of the work is the interdisciplinary work it performs. The collected works address substantial questions relating to the interplay of the material built environment with the people who inhabit, govern and write about cities past and present. Within this framework, the book is divided into four parts: “Spatial cultures in the ancient and medieval worlds”, “Spatial cultures in the long nineteenth century”, “Historical cities, contemporary spatial cultures”, and “Perspectives and methods for spatial cultures research” – each consisting of five specific chapters. The authors are of different interdisciplinary backgrounds including but not limited to architecture, sociology, digital humanities, history, archaeology, urban theory, anthropology and urban geography, with some having backgrounds in several different fields.